I found the following stuff from progit. I do not understand the portion in bold style. Could anyone kindly explain. The Git project has four long-running branches: master, next, and pu (proposed updates) for new work, and maint for maintenance backports. When new work is introduced by contributors, it’s collected into topic branches ...
i'm using git status -u to show untracked files. And on the terminal, i see plenty untracked files that i need them to be untracked such as unit tests, personal documentation, etc. I have put them in .gitignore but it seem it still git stattus show them . so how do we show only untracked files that no exist in .gitignore. ...
my ~/.gitconfig is: [alias] commit = "!sh commit.sh" However, when I type git commit, script is not called. Is it possible, or I have to use another alias name? ...
I started playing with git on my new project and I had a bunch of separate branches and I just wanted to merge them as each of them were an update to different parts of the program and I guess I was supposed to merge them but I run a "git commit -a" after cheking out each branch and then I realized the whole program went back in time an...
I have two directories on my local machine pointing to the same remote git repository. When I issue the command git branch -r in one of the directories I get a longer list of remote branches then in the other directory. How is that possible ? It seems that some of the remote branches are 'hidden' in one directory and are visible in the ...
What's the difference between: git add . git commit -a Should I be doing both, or is that redundant? ...
I want to get the current head of my git repo destroying all changes made and erasing additional files in the working copy. ...
I have a central git repo set up using gitolite. I want to set up a hook such that whenever a user pushes to the repo, it performs a pull elsewhere followed by some automated testing. So far, I only want to it perform the pull. In the hooks directory I created the following script names post-update: #!/bin/sh cd /home/git/www/epica...
I'm trying to get my app to package my gems before deployment (to heroku) One of my gems in my Gemfile is a custom gem that I've written and I'm using the :git option of bundler to use the specific tag of my interest as such: gem "my_gem", :git => "[email protected]:my_username/my_gem.git", :tag => "v0.1.0" When I run bundle package how...
I'm using a little script to fix up past commits. The script assumes that the fix for the broken commit is staged, that the working directory is clean and that broken commit is passed on the command line. Here's the raw Python core of the script: #!/usr/bin/env python import os import sys broken_commit = sys.argv[1] logmsg = os.popen(...
I want to use the Typus plugin in my rails application, but i can't install it. $ script/plugin install git://github.com/fesplugas/typus.git Initialized empty Git repository in /...../vendor/plugins/typus/.git/ $ script/generate typus Couldn't find 'typus' generator $ ls -al vendor/plugins/ total 0 drwxr-xr-x 2 *** staff 68 Aug 23...
i'm a git / osx / unix newbie but in my current job, i'm using them all. i run "git difftool" a lot to compare changes in a commit, but any time it runs into an image, i get an error from FileMerge and i have to make a few unnecessary clicks to skip it....sometimes 10 or 20 times for any commit. i looked but haven't seen any easy way t...
Hello! I have several personal/pet (.NET) programming projects in mind, and I’d like to use the same methodologies that I use at work (i.e., using source control). As these projects are not work-related, I can’t use the tools available at my company, so I’m looking for some affordable tools to work with on my own. Ideally I’d like to fi...
For various reasons, I have the entry in my .gitignore in the root of a project: *.c As I desire, this ignores all C files from being included. However, I really only want the C files to only be ignored in the root directory, and not all the sub-directories: foo.c bar.c folder/baz.c In the above scheme, I only want foo.c and b...
Suppose I git clone a repository. Then edit a file A and delete a file B. How can I restore my working copy to the original status? Something similar to svn up. ...
Pulling from http to escape authentication(so I don't need to type password if I'm not using ssh.keygen). Pushing through ssh with authentication. ...
Basically I thought I could use git for deployment as those rails cloud providers as heroku offer. So I created an app on the server, changed to that directory and did a git init in there. Next I created a http server with git-wep pointing that directory. Now I check out, that`s fine too and edit and commit to my repo. Now, what I want ...
Is there any way to tag the git repository based on the commit time. Ex: If I have the release time, I want to tag all the repositories used in the release as of the release time. The main issue is the tagging may happen few hours after the release. My repository is in a Windows XP system and I'm using msysgit to access git. Thank you...
Hi, I am very new to the world of git and version control. I cloned a remote git repository about a month ago. The remote repository has undergone many changes and has now become unstable. Now I need another copy of the repository, version identical to the one I cloned a month ago. How do I do this? Thank you. ...
Hi, We use WordPress for development, but often make a lot of modifications. We're looking for a way to always keep our development version up to date with our modified version. It possible to import all of the WordPress SVN commits, branches and tags, but merge these with any we've made in our repo. For example if we had removed the ...